{"id":71873,"date":"2019-08-06T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71873"},"modified":"2019-08-06T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T20:40:30","slug":"ill-start-treating-climate-change-like-a-crisis-when-the-people-who-tell-me-its-a-crisis-start-acting-like-its-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71873","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Start Treating Climate Change Like A Crisis When The People Who Tell Me It&#8217;s A Crisis Start Acting Like It&#8217;s A Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The rich, powerful and famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ac2news.com\/2019\/08\/a-listers-arrive-in-private-jets-mega-yachts-for-climate-confab\/?fbclid=IwAR2yehWx1HMVEepcj8fTdWl-Rxmrl_xfs3Q4cI_JOYtfvxIFiByt-io-BGw\">journey to a climate change conference at a posh resort in Sicily, leaving a luxuriant trail of hydrocarbon exhaust<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>According to Italian media reports, guests were expected to arrive in an eye-popping 114 private jets.<br> The Post guesstimated that with 114 flights from Los Angeles to Palermo, the planes would have pumped an astonishing 100,000 kilos of C02 into the atmosphere.<br> \u201cGoogle Camp is meant to be a place where influential people get together to discuss how to make the world better,\u201d one frequent flier told the tabloid.<br> \u201cThere will likely be discussions about online privacy, politics, human rights, and of course, the environment, which makes it highly ironic that this event requires 114 private jets to happen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting to note by way of contrast that climate skeptics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5701259\/Climate-skeptics-actually-ecofriendly-global-warming-alarmists-study-finds.html\">tend to have smaller carbon footprints than Warmers<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not sure if the figures for the warmers control for the profligate use by the rich and famous.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rich, powerful and famous journey to a climate change conference at a posh resort in Sicily, leaving a luxuriant trail of hydrocarbon exhaust: According to Italian media reports, guests were expected to arrive in an eye-popping 114 private jets. The Post guesstimated that with 114 flights from Los Angeles to Palermo, the planes would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71874,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71873\/revisions\/71874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}